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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2016-08-01 00:51:02 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2016-08-01 00:51:02 -0400
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ext4: validate that metadata blocks do not overlap superblock
A number of fuzzing failures seem to be caused by allocation bitmaps or other metadata blocks being pointed at the superblock. This can cause kernel BUG or WARNings once the superblock is overwritten, so validate the group descriptor blocks to make sure this doesn't happen. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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